(23 Jul 2023)
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Santiago, Chile - 22 July 2023
1. People carrying cardboard cutouts of Operation Colombo victims (people who were forcibly disappeared during the country’s dictatorship) and passing under a sign reading (Spanish) “The dictatorship still lasts."
HEADLINE: Chile remembers dictatorship victims
2. Various of people carrying cardboard cutouts
ANNOTATION: The silhouettes of 119 disappeared detainees were carried across the Chilean capital, nearly 50 years after their disappearances.
3. Woman holding a banner reading (Spanish): “So much history in a country without memory”, and people behind with cardboard cutouts of the victims
ANNOTATION: They are the faces of the victims of Operation Colombo of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that lasted from 1973 to 1990.
4. Reflection in water of people marching
ANNOTATION: Some 3,000 people took part in commemorative events in Santiago for the 119 victims.
5. People in front of presidential palace with cardboard cutouts
ANNOTATION: Hilda Saldívar continues to look for answers about her disappeared son.
6. Hilda Saldívar, next to the cardboard cutout of her son Gerard Saldívar who was detained and disappeared during the dictatorship
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hilda Saldívar, mother of disappeared detainee Gerard Saldívar:
"Knowing the whole truth, that's what we want. Because we know part of the truth, what the witnesses said but we still lack, so we can leave in peace, we lack the whole truth for me and my colleagues."
8. People holding incense
ANNOTATION: The list of people killed, tortured, or imprisoned during Pinochet’s regime totaled over 40,000.
9. Hands holding photos of victims
ANNOTATION: Of those more than 1,400 were victims of forced disappearance.
11. A woman blowing incense
ANNOTATION: 1,100 have yet to be found, according to official figures.
12. Various of people carrying cardboard cutouts
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people joined a procession in Santiago to remember the victims who were forcibly disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship.
The Operation Colombo victims all disappeared between May 1974 and February 1975 during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990).
The list of people killed, tortured, or imprisoned for political reasons during Pinochet’s regime totaled 40,018.
The government estimates that over 3,000 were killed, including about 1,100 of whom no trace has ever been found.
The government of President Gabriel Boric announced a national plan to search for the disappeared, a task that has relied on the efforts of relatives and groups of victims for years.
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